Voliro Hexacopter with Tilting Rotors can Fly in any Orientation

Designed and built in nine months, the prototype is a regular-shaped hexacopter, but each of its six props can tilt a full 360 degrees, allowing a staggering 12 degrees of freedom in the air. That means it can manage a stable hover flying sideways, upside down, diagonally or any other way you care to mention.

Its acrobatic capabilities are more or less unlimited, but the Voliro team (a group of 11 “highly motivated” students from ETH Zurich) is more interested in its ability to hug walls. This could be a huge advantage in infrastructure inspection jobs and the like.